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Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded
NY Times ^
| 9/6
Posted on 09/06/2005 8:57:38 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
It is easier to ask for giveness than beg for permission. Good for them!
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posted on
09/06/2005 8:58:48 PM PDT
by
bnelson44
(Scouts Up! http://www.scouting.org/media/katrina/unithelp.html)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:00:07 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
They have to be reprimanded but I think they'll live with it. They knew what they were doing.
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:00:34 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(I'm having the best day ever.)
To: bnelson44
I don't think so, if soldiers did willy nilly what they wanted you have chaos. Follow orders.
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:01:22 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:01:32 PM PDT
by
359Henrie
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Just another case of "Jack Bauer Syndrome" - Good for Them!
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:01:49 PM PDT
by
NordP
(Keeping America Great - Karl Rove / Jack Bauer in 2008 !)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Ah, the New York Times.....
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:01:54 PM PDT
by
Jaded
(Hell sometimes has fluorescent lighting and a trumpet.)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Good for the pilots, and shame on their commanders.
This was a life-saving operations analog of taking out some enemy targets of opportunity while completing the specified mission during combat operations. I doubt any military commander would chide subordinates for taking out hostiles beyond what was ordered, why the heck are they complaining about rendering service beyond what was ordered in this case?
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:02:01 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know . . .)
To: bnelson44
This is the kind of initiative we should expect to see. Too many people are whining that FEMA or some other bureaucrat didn't give them permission. Fine, so go and take matters into your own hands.
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
I wonder why sometimes I have to register to read a NYT article and sometimes I don't.
What a tough call this is. Follow orders or rescue people.
Glad I'm not the judge & jury.
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:02:17 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(In golf, some are long, I'm "Lama Long")
To: bnelson44
They'll never make admiral but they saved lives!
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:02:23 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: 359Henrie
Me neither - just like that CNN wrong Charleston report...I'm smellin' a RAT.
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:02:27 PM PDT
by
NordP
(Keeping America Great - Karl Rove / Jack Bauer in 2008 !)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
They told Rambo only to take photographs, and not rescue any prisoners.
He showed THEM what a soldier can do!
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:02:35 PM PDT
by
SteveMcKing
("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
To: cyborg
They should be reprimanded. They did not know what their superiors had in mind for them. They might have had another mission planned for these pilots after delivering the supplies that was equally as important.
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:02:40 PM PDT
by
Sthitch
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
I worked on H3s from 1987-1992 and was amazed they could still fly back then.
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:02:49 PM PDT
by
flada
(Y2K? What are you selling, chicken or sex jelly?)
To: The_Reader_David
Well, I wonder if the Commander really chewed them out or just said "Naughty naughty boy. I had to say that, it is my job. Now, can I buy you a beer?"
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
They knew what they were doing and deserve everything that will result from their actions.
GRIN!
As for their Commander, well...
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:03:24 PM PDT
by
Hunble
(is)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
The America hating bastards at the NYT must spend their entire life with their heads in the toilet, bobbing for turds to highlight --- as proof of American's unfitness to survive....
Semper Fi
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posted on
09/06/2005 9:03:33 PM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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